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Peter Watkins is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Assistant Director, Editor, Sound Editor and Post Production Supervisor British born on 29 october 1935
Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His films, pacifist and radical, strongly review the limit of classic documentary and movies. He mainly concentrates his works and ideas around the mass media and our relation/participation to a movie or television documentary.
Nearly all of Watkins' films have used a combination of dramatic and documentary elements to dissect historical occurrences or possible near future events. The first of these, Culloden, portrayed the Jacobite uprising of 1745 in a documentary style, as if television reporters were interviewing the participants and accompanying them into battle; a similar device was used in his biographical film Edvard Munch. La Commune reenacts the Paris Commune days using a large cast of French non-actors.
In 2004 he also wrote a book, Media Crisis, an engaged essay about the media crisis, the monoform and, foremost, the lack of debate around the construction of new forms of audiovisual media.
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Peter Watkins
Nearly all of Watkins' films have used a combination of dramatic and documentary elements to dissect historical occurrences or possible near future events. The first of these, Culloden, portrayed the Jacobite uprising of 1745 in a documentary style, as if television reporters were interviewing the participants and accompanying them into battle; a similar device was used in his biographical film Edvard Munch. La Commune reenacts the Paris Commune days using a large cast of French non-actors.
In 2004 he also wrote a book, Media Crisis, an engaged essay about the media crisis, the monoform and, foremost, the lack of debate around the construction of new forms of audiovisual media.
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Filmography of Peter Watkins (13 films)
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The Freethinker (1994)
, 4h36Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin Suede
Genres Historical
Themes Peinture
Actors Peter Watkins, Krister Henriksson
Roles Policeman
Rating72%
The Journey (1987)
, 14h33Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin Australie
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about nuclear technology, Documentary films about technology, Arme nucléaire
Actors Peter Watkins, Ronald Reagan
Roles Narrator / Self
Rating74%
Edvard Munch (1974)
, 3h30Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Peinture
Actors Peter Watkins
Roles Narrator (voice)
Rating80%
Edvard Munch, la danse de la vie, présenté comme un documentaire d'époque, retrace les débuts de la carrière artistique du peintre expressioniste norvégien Edvard Munch (1887-1901). De ses recherches picturales à la réception de son œuvre par le public et les critiques, des drames amoureux à la peur de la maladie qui s'abat sur sa famille telle une malédiction, de son rejet de la société bourgeoise à son accueil par des groupes anarchistes ou d’artistes révolutionnaires, le film brosse un portrait subjectif et intime de Munch tout en liant l’artiste à son époque et aux grands mouvements culturels et sociaux qui agitent cette fin du XIX siècle.
Punishment Park (1971)
, 1h28Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Documentary films about politics, Political films, Alternate history films
Actors Carmen Argenziano, Peter Watkins
Roles Documentarist (uncredited)
Rating76%
The movie takes place in 1970. The Vietnam War is escalating and United States President Richard Nixon has just decided on a "secret" bombing campaign in Cambodia. Faced with a growing anti-war movement, President Nixon decrees a state of emergency based on the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950, which authorises federal authorities, without reference to Congress, to detain persons judged to be a "risk to internal security".
It Happened Here (1966)
, 1h37Directed by Kevin Brownlow
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War
Themes Politique, Political films, Dystopian films, Alternate history films
Actors Sebastian Shaw, Reginald Marsh, Peter Watkins, Peter Dyneley
Rating66%
The film opens with the statement: "The German invasion of Britain took place in 1940 after the retreat from Dunkirk." After months of fierce resistance and brutal reprisals, the occupying forces manage to restore order, largely suppressing the resistance movement. However, due to demands from the Ural Mountains front, most German troops are eventually removed from Western Europe, and the garrisoning of Britain is largely carried out by local volunteers to the German army and the SS.
The War Game (1966)
, 48minutesDirected by Peter Watkins
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Documentary, Action
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Documentary films about nuclear technology, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Peter Watkins
Roles Documentist (uncredited)
Rating79%
Filmed in black-and-white with a running time of just under 50 minutes, The War Game depicts the prelude to and the immediate weeks of the aftermath to a Soviet nuclear attack against Britain. A Chinese invasion of South Vietnam starts the war; tensions escalate when the United States authorises tactical nuclear warfare against the Chinese. Although Soviet and East German forces threaten to invade West Berlin if the US does not withdraw that decision, the US does not acquiesce to communist demands and the invasion takes place; two US Army divisions attempt to fight their way into Berlin to counter this, but the Russian and East German forces overwhelm them in conventional battle. In order to turn the tide, the US president authorises the NATO commanders to use their tactical nuclear weapons, and they soon do so. An escalating nuclear war results, during which larger Russian strategic IRBMs are launched at Britain. The film remarks that many Soviet missiles were, at the time, believed to be liquid-fuelled and stored above ground, making them vulnerable to attack, and hypothesises that in any nuclear crisis, the USSR would be obliged to fire all of them as early as possible in order to avoid their destruction by counter-attack, hence the rapid progression from tactical to strategic nuclear exchange.
Culloden (1964)
, 1h9Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Historical
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films
Actors Peter Watkins
Roles Field Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
Rating77%
16 avril 1746. La bataille de Culloden, dans les landes marécageuses de l'Écosse. Sous les ordres du Duc de Cumberland, les régiments d'élite anglais écrasent les partisans de Charles Edouard Stuart, qui cherchait à renverser le trône de Hanovre à Londres, scellant le sort définitif de l'Écosse. L'ultime bataille à s'être déroulée sur le sol britannique tourne au massacre. Une fois les Highlanders décimés, une impitoyable « pacification » des Hautes terres s’ensuivit. Plus de 2000 Écossais tomberont, victimes des combats et de la féroce répression qui s'abattit sur tout un peuple et sa culture.
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The Trap (2012)
, 1h5Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Rating71%
En 1974, la radio Sveriges invitant le public à présenter des scénarios sur « le futur », Watkins et le journaliste Bo Melander développent un scénario sur le thème du nucléaire.
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2007)
, 5h45Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France
Actors François Damiens, Laurent Roth, Patrick Dell'Isola, Gérard Watkins, Aurélia Petit
Rating79%
Napoléon III perd la guerre contre la Prusse après un siège de Paris particulièrement dur pour le peuple parisien. Nous sommes en 1870-1871 et la misère est grande. Les 17 et 18 mars 1871, le peuple parisien, qui refuse la capitulation, se révolte. La Commune de Paris est née.
The Freethinker (1994)
, 4h36Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin Suede
Genres Historical
Themes Peinture
Actors Peter Watkins, Krister Henriksson
Rating72%
The Journey (1987)
, 14h33Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin Australie
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about nuclear technology, Documentary films about technology, Arme nucléaire
Actors Peter Watkins, Ronald Reagan
Rating74%
Evening Land (1977)
, 1h49Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Documentary
Rating70%
Le film décrit une grève dans les docks de Copenhague contre la construction de quatre sous-marins pour la marine française : les ouvriers protestent contre le gel des salaires conclu par la direction pour remporter le contrat, mais aussi contre l'équipement des bateaux en missiles nucléaires. Un sommet européen se tenant au même moment dans la ville, un groupe d'activistes enlève le ministre danois pour contester la construction d'armements nucléaires au Danemark et soutenir les revendications des grévistes. La manifestation est brutalement réprimée par la police, qui sauve le ministre et capture ou tue les « terroristes » .
Edvard Munch (1974)
, 3h30Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Peinture
Actors Peter Watkins
Rating80%
Edvard Munch, la danse de la vie, présenté comme un documentaire d'époque, retrace les débuts de la carrière artistique du peintre expressioniste norvégien Edvard Munch (1887-1901). De ses recherches picturales à la réception de son œuvre par le public et les critiques, des drames amoureux à la peur de la maladie qui s'abat sur sa famille telle une malédiction, de son rejet de la société bourgeoise à son accueil par des groupes anarchistes ou d’artistes révolutionnaires, le film brosse un portrait subjectif et intime de Munch tout en liant l’artiste à son époque et aux grands mouvements culturels et sociaux qui agitent cette fin du XIX siècle.
Punishment Park (1971)
, 1h28Directed by Peter Watkins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Documentary films about politics, Political films, Alternate history films
Actors Carmen Argenziano, Peter Watkins
Rating76%
The movie takes place in 1970. The Vietnam War is escalating and United States President Richard Nixon has just decided on a "secret" bombing campaign in Cambodia. Faced with a growing anti-war movement, President Nixon decrees a state of emergency based on the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950, which authorises federal authorities, without reference to Congress, to detain persons judged to be a "risk to internal security".